Board of Directors

Board of Directors

Dan Pio

Dan Pio

Dan Pio joined Progressive Waste Solutions in 2010 as Vice President and Canadian Chief Operating Officer. Prior to that, he was employed as Senior Vice President with Waste Management, Inc. from 2001 to 2005. From 1996 to 2001, Mr. Pio held various positions with Waste Management and its predecessor companies including Chief Accounting Officer and Division Vice President. From 1990 to 1996, he held the position of Manager of Financial Operations for Laidlaw Waste Systems Ltd. Mr. Pio has over 20 years of experience in the solid waste management industry and holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada.

Mr. Pio has been personally involved with the OWMA for approximately 22 years and 2 of those years Mr. Pio has served on the Board of Directors and is now part of the Executive Committee. Mr. Pio is also involved with various organizations such as SmartGrowth Panel Ontario, JDRF and Ticat Advisory Board.

Denis Goulet

Denis Goulet

Denis has worked in the waste management industry for over 25 years. His experience includes staff roles in mergers/acquisitions and strategic planning and general management of multiple operations throughout Canada. His current role entails the management of all business entities within Miller Waste Systems Inc. These include waste collection and transfer, organics processing, landfill and material recycling facilities.

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Denis has participated as a member of the Board of Directors of the Ontario Waste Management Association (OWMA) for over 10 years, representing several companies, and is currently on the Executive of the Board.

Norman Lee

Norman Lee

Norm Lee received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree in 1986 and his Professional Engineer designation in 1988.

Norm spent the first 11 years of his career in the private sector as a consulting engineer specializing in the design, approval and construction of waste management facilities.

Norm then switched to the public sector where he began to focus on waste policy. He spent ten years at the City of Toronto before becoming the Director of Waste Management at the Region of Peel in 2009.

Norm is a member of numerous professional and industry associations and has served on the board of directors of the Ontario Waste Management Association since July 2009.

Mike Watt

Mike Watt

Mike Watt is a long-time resident of St. Catharines and is the Immediate Past Chairman of the OWMA. Mike has been a part of the OWMA for over 8 years, on the Board for 5 of those years.

Mike Watt is a professional engineer and Vice President of the Walker Environmental Group, based in Niagara Falls. Mike is responsible for the Walker portfolio of environmental businesses. His specialization is in P3 (Public Private Partnerships) mainly with municipalities and strategic joint ventures. As well as the landfill, recycling and trucking division, he has successfully grown new businesses in compost and bio-solids processing, green energy from landfill gas, industrial development, water treatment and emissions credit trading.

Mike serves as an Executive member of the St. Catharines General Hospital Foundation and is President of the Greater Niagara Chamber of Commerce. He has previously served as a founding member of Land Care Niagara, as well as on the Board of the Twenty Valley Tourism Association and as chair of Professional Engineers Ontario.

Jon Arsenault

Jon Arsenault

Jon Arsenault is the Director of Waste Management at the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, a community of over 550,000 people, comprising the Cities of Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo as well as four rural Townships (North Dumfries, Wellesley, Wilmot and Woolwich). In this role, Jon is responsible for the administration of all waste management related planning, design, construction, maintenance and the safe and efficient operation of all the Region’s Waste Management facilities.

Jon Arsenault is a professional engineer with over 20 years of experience in waste management and environmental engineering in both the private and public sectors.

Brent Bolger

Brent Bolger

Brent Bolger is the founder and President of Brendar Environmental Inc. and Brendar Environmental Recycling Inc. Brendar Environmental Inc. began in 1994 in the Kingston area. The company has grown to include its Kingston office as well as two facilities in Muskoka – one for transfer/processing hazardous waste and another for the recycling of identified streams such as E-waste, batteries, paint and plastics.

Brent has spent all of his career life in the hazardous waste management sector.

After graduating from University of Waterloo in 1979 he began working with the former CIL Industries in the fertilizer industry – first in Nova Scotia and then in southwestern Ontario. From there he commenced working with a number of waste industry leaders including Tricil Sarnia Ltd. and Walker Industries – Woodington Systems and Kub Coatings Paint Recycling. He then started Brendar Environmental Inc. where he has worked with the support of some great staff that has collectively grown the company to its current business size and status.

Brent is originally from North Bay Ontario and can be found working either in Kingston or Bracebridge with his wife Darlene. They have three adult children living in the Ottawa and Kingston area.

Michael Cant

Michael Cant

Michael Cant is a Principal and Vice-President and GHD. His main focus has been assisting municipalities and private industry with the planning, approvals and design of waste management facilities. Over his 25 year career, he has successfully completed approvals for landfills, transfer stations, composting facilities, recycling facilities and EFW facilities. He has also conducted a number of feasibility studies on waste technologies including business planning analysis. He has been an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto lecturing on waste management planning and approvals. Michael currently sits on the OWMA Approvals Reform Committee. Michael has been on the Board for 6 years. He has been a member of the Recycling Council of British Columbia, Recycling Council of Alberta, Compost Council of Canada.

Jim Graham

Jim Graham

Jim Graham is the owner and CEO of TRY Recycling Inc. TRY Recycling opened its gates under Jim’s leadership and guidance in 1991. Jim was the former Chair of the Ontario Waste Management Association from 2009 - 2011.

Jim is the Chair of London’s National Five Bloom Communities In Bloom Program. He also sits as the TRY Recycling Inc., representative at the Board of the Composting Council of Canada and is President of the Great Lakes International Air Show and volunteers on many other boards and committees.

He has a Bachelor of Education and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Ontario. He is an avid fisherman and sports enthusiast. In his spare time, he runs and scuba dives. Jim lives just outside London, Ontario with his wife Charmaine and their two children MacArthur and Madeline.

Joe Johnson

Joe Johnson

Joe Johnson’s company has been a member of OWMA for 25 years, Joe served on the Board previously in the mid-2000’s and his staff have been involved on various OWMA Committees throughout the years Joe is just entering the Board as an Associate Director for 2013

Through its service branch network, Joe Johnson Equipment Inc. (JJE) is Canada’s leading provider of environmental and infrastructure maintenance equipment to the Canadian private haulers and the public sector. JJE has five separate public works equipment operating divisions, one of which is the provision of mobile Refuse Collection vehicles. The company represents Labrie Enviroquip and NewWay refuse collection vehicles. JJE is recognized as one of Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies.

A lawyer, Joe received his B.A (Economics) from the University of Western Ontario and his law degree from Osgoode Hall (York University) Law School.

Joe is the President of the Ontario Public Works Association, serves on many charitable boards, coaches his son’s OMHA Championship Hockey Team, and Joe was recognized as one of “Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 Leaders” in 2007.

Mark Segsworth

Jay Stanford

Jay Stanford

Paul van der Werf

Paul van der Werf

Paul van der Werf, of 2cg, has been a member of the OWMA since 2007 and has been a Board Member since 2011. Over the last 20 years he has worked professionally in various capacities including facility management, working for environmental consultants and operating his own consultancy. He has expertise in waste management planning, waste auditing as well as large scale organics processing and recycling.

He is currently the current Chair of the Mayor’s Sustainable Energy Council (London, ON), the Chair of TD Friends of the Environment (London), Chair of London Composts and on the Board of Directors of Goodwill Industries (London). In the past he has been on the Board of Directors of Habitat for Humanity (London).

Paul was educated at the University of Guelph where he received an undergraduate degree in Environmental Biology and a Master’s of Science in the department of Land Resource Science. In 2010, he completed a five month intensive course on developing Integrated Community Sustainability Plans through The Natural Step.

Since 2003 he has written a column called “Organic Matters” and been a contributing editor for Solid Waste & Recycling magazine. He has written more than to 100 articles on waste management for various publications http://www.2cg.ca/articles.html.

Francis Veilleux

Francis Veilleux

Francis Veilleux is the President of Bluewater Recycling Association, Huron Park, ON. Francis had been an executive with the Association for over 20 years. Francis is responsible for managing the Association’s solid waste management system which includes curbside waste and recycling programs, a material recovery facility, e-waste collection, and environmental

education programs. Through their integrated waste management system, the Association has diverted as much as 80% of the waste it manages to beneficial use.

Under Francis’ direction, the Association has reached the Platinum award category presented by the Recycling Council of Ontario for exceeding Provincial diversion targets, making the Association the first organization in the province to achieve this organizational designation.

Francis is an active member of OWMA, MWA, and SWANA in the field of solid waste. He has been an OWMA director for the past two years and has been the chair of the Safety and
Transportation committee for the last three.

Francis is also a previous director with RCO. With an annual operating budget exceeding $10 million and assets in excess of $10 million, the Association’s system managed over 30,000 tonnes of waste in 2011. The Association’s waste system includes a fleet of 42 vehicles, a 50,000 per year material recovery facility, and a permanent e-waste facility.